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Looking for the hottest, hippest new food ingredient? Something that will impress your friends at your next dinner party?

Try black garlic.

As reported by Bonnie S. Benwick in theWashington Post, black garlic has gone from nonexistence to obscurity to trendy top-chef ingredient in a relatively short time.

Inventor Scott Kim of South Korea began experimenting with it in 2004. He wanted to market fermented or black garlic as a super food; his month-long heat-curing process creates a high concentration of disease-fighting antioxidants.